Shi Zhengli, the virologist at centre of COVID lab-leak theory, reveals coronavirus sequences from Wuhan institute.
  • chillinit@lemmynsfw.com
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    15 days ago

    Even if it was peer reviewed there’s no means to ensure the input is meritable. The sample set was determined by governance. The implied conclusions were predetermined.

    • nednobbins@lemm.ee
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      14 days ago

      Part of the point of the peer review process is to check for that. This kind of satay would be very hard to fake well enough to pass the scrutiny of a bunch of skeptical scientists. And if it passes that any scientist will be able to do the same. Being able to force an other scientist to retract a Nature paper would be a high prize for any academic.

          • chillinit@lemmynsfw.com
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            14 days ago

            It’s China, who’s authoritarian governance controls the dataset.

            The fucking paper even says so itself in the abstract, lmao.